Monday, 17 August 2009

Sand

Did anyone else have a sandpit when they were a kid?I remember ours well and this doll head reminds me of it.For some reason there was a permanent kewpie doll buried there.All other toys - the cars I played with (I wasn't much for dolls) -were put away, but the old doll just got the brunt of the weatherand a lot of isolation and star gazing. Occasionally she'd unexpectedly pop up as a rather kitschspeed bump on my extravagant race tracks.Poor doll.I wonder if she's still buried under the giant monstrosity of a house that'sthere now, that shamefully took all the beauty and memories of mychildhood home and the nooks, shadows and blossoms of the old garden away.Of course, the sandpit and been a fishpond to start with,and we filled it in...so it goes.